Today, I have decided to start blogging. There are three primary reasons for this. Firstly, I have work I should be doing but I have put off by every other means I can think of. Secondly, I am reading Blood, Sweat and Tea by Tom Reynolds who writes Random Acts of Reality. Finally, I change my mind every few days what I want to be when I grow up, even as I sit in classes propelling me towards a Ph.D I can't decide if I really want. Maybe by doing this, I will get my head straight enough to either realized that teaching and academia are what I really want or find what it is that will truly make me happy (vis-à-vis a job, I can think of a dozen things off hand that would make me happy but none of them have the minutest thing to do with a job in any conventional sense of the word).
I suppose I ought to explain what the 'this' is; I plan to write every few days with my career of the day and explain why it sounds appealing to me. I probably will not limit myself to jobs &c, for example I would be delighted to wake up to find myself Cory Doctorow. I can imagine a Kafkaesque story beginning 'As J.C. awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a science fiction writing, blogging alternative copyright activist and promoter.' And that, as they say, is that.
Until next time.
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